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    COLLY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected forms: collied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, collier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, colliest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Make soiled, filthy, or dirtyplay

    Example:

    don't soil your clothes when you play outside!

    Synonyms:

    begrime; bemire; colly; dirty; grime; soil

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

    Hypernyms (to "colly" is one way to...):

    alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "colly"):

    foul (make unclean)

    contaminate; foul; pollute (make impure)

    smear (stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance)

    slime (cover or stain with slime)

    muddy; muddy up (dirty with mud)

    splash (soil or stain with a splashed liquid)

    mire; muck; muck up; mud (soil with mud, muck, or mire)

    crock (soil with or as with crock)

    blemish; spot (mar or impair with a flaw)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something

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